bedroom nation

English

Etymology

From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.

Noun

bedroom nation (plural bedroom nations)

  1. (micronationalism, generally derogatory) A micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).
    • 2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, page 8:
      At first he wanted to call it Seltsam ('silly', in German), but instead settled on The Kingdom of Talossa, "talossa" [author's italics] being Finnish for "inside the house," the perfect name for a bedroom nation.
    • 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO), archived from the original on 2008-08-10:
      While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.
    • 2014 February 28, “An Interview with a Micronationalist (3): Kaiser Mo'll”, in The Micras Observer:
      Not counting a secessionist bedroom-nation I had as a kid (briefly allied with Sander Dieleman’s Pacary), my first introduction to micronations as this sector understands them was in the spring of 2003.
    • 2018 January 28, u/Cooey_11, “Looking for members!!”, in Reddit, r/micronations:
      PS, we will not accept house,online, or bedroom nation you must have an actual territory that could one day become an actual recognized nation
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